Multi-spectral fluorescence molecular tomography

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The advent of new biomedical imaging technique has enabled significant progresses in how we image humans and animals. In particular, the emergence in the mainstream of new modalities, such as diffuse optical imaging, has enabled researchers to image hemodynamics in vivo in a non invasive fashion. In parallel, associated with the emergence of endogenous diffuse optical imaging in humans, a new approach is emerging enabling to follow molecular products injected in animals, in vivo, through fluorescence. This new imaging technique, referred to as molecular imaging holds great promises: whereas one would detect diseases through anatomical changes and anomalies, we now can use new methods to provide a minimally invasive characterization and measurement of biological processes at the cellular and molecular levels of living organisms.